Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of subsidence , the ground was one mass of hillocks and hollows , extending in all over some 70 acres . |
| 2 | A total of 1,636 Garratts ran on eighty-six railways in forty-eight countries : of these , Beyer , Peacock built just over one thousand . |
| 3 | The oldest datable sound recording still in existence is just over one hundred years old , so our legacy covers a much smaller span of time than books , music , or paintings . |
| 4 | Just over one hundred years ago , a Frenchman , Arthur Batut , established the possibility of aerial photography when his successful experiments were described in La Nature of August 1888 . |
| 5 | Collectively we saw just over one hundred species ( 102 ) in the two days . |
| 6 | The film started with this character telling the audience how long the Führer had spent in the bunker that last time , just over one hundred days . |
| 7 | Just over one hundred children came to the Christmas Party that was held on Saturday 16th December , on a day remembered for its appalling weather . |
| 8 | Just over one hundred children between the ages of four to eleven came to the canteen which had been transformed with decorations . |
| 9 | Just over one million additional hospital cases were treated in 1989 , compared with seventy eight . |
| 10 | Just over one million additional hospital cases were treated in 1989 , compared with seventy eight . |
| 11 | A population increase of about 3.5 million was forecast in the South-east in the period 1961–81 , just over 1 million of which would be from net inward migration , the remainder in the form of natural increase . |
| 12 | Trade during the war years declined from over 2.5 million tons in 1939 to just over 1 million tons in 1944 . |
| 13 | There are now over 1 million NGVs worldwide . |
| 14 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 15 | ‘ That 's because the population of Denmark is a little over five million people and it has a coastline of nearly five thousand miles , so even in the tourist season our beaches do n't get packed ! ’ |
| 16 | Following a three-year pilot Programme , the council of ESRC has awarded a little over 1 million for a programme in Information technology in Education , initially for three years , under its Human Behaviour and Development Research Group . |
| 17 | In the 1979 election the Labour and Conservative national party organizations are estimated to have each spent a little over 1 million pounds on the campaign , roughly the same amount expended in total by their candidates in the local campaigns . |
| 18 | In 1980 , more than 46.5 million people lived in England , compared with a little over 5 million in Scotland , 3 million in Wales and 1.7 million in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | ‘ A little over four hundred pounds . |
| 20 | The world 's population now stands at a little over four billion . |
| 21 | The highest point on Vengsøya , a little over two thousand feet above the Ocean 's surface , suddenly turns pink . |
| 22 | Together they had a little over two thousand saved . |
| 23 | As yet it was a little over two hundred yards away . |
| 24 | The grant recognizes their ownership of a little over one million hectares in the Pastaza region , in the east of the country . |
| 25 | Between 1981 and 1984 , the number of those for whom self-employment was the main employment rose by almost 0.5 million to a little over 2.5 million — a growth to 11.2 per cent of the total employment figures . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the House was advised in the summer of a new scheme to assist people during periods of very cold weather — well over 1 million payments are expected to be made for the recent cold spell . |
| 27 | Despite its very small membership at the start , the FMS soon grew to well over 1 .000 members , with branches in most regions of the country : |
| 28 | Nobody can say for sure when the earliest purpose-made sparkling wine was produced , but documentary evidence exists to prove that the monks of the abbey of St Hilaire in southern France had intentionally produced sparkling wines as early as 1531 , well over one hundred years before anyone attempted to do so in Champagne . |
| 29 | Moreover , the Nonjurors included some of the best scholars of the day , skilful and productive polemicists who made a powerful intellectual impact : well over one hundred political pamphlets are attributable to them . |
| 30 | At the moment the school has three hundred and sixty pupils approximately which is very small compared with others containing well over one thousand . |